Hello everyone,

While quite a few drafts have been using attributes to carry weird
information into BGP, this one proposes to use MP.
I can see how one may think it would be helpful and reduce implementation
burgen but I am not sure it is wise and I believe it goes beyond what
AFI/SAFI are for.

Also this reminds me very much of
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-idr-operational-message
which I implemented but never saw traction.
So while I can see why this would benefit operational matters, I do not
believe the RFC as proposed should be accepted.

Sorry for being such a party pooper !

Thomas

On Sat, 24 Apr 2021 at 14:38, Rayhaan Jaufeerally (IETF) <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Dear GROW chairs and participants,
>
> I would like to propose draft-jaufeerally-bgp-lg-cap-00 (
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-jaufeerally-bgp-lg-cap/) as a
> mechanism for in-band dissemination of looking glass endpoints in BGP,
> using a new OPEN message capability.
>
> The rationale behind this is to facilitate automation around eBGP peering,
> for example  to make it possible to automatically detect if the peer has
> accepted some routes which are expected to be accepted.
>
> I'm aware that the underlying RFC8522 is an informational RFC and leaves
> some details unspecified for the response format (i.e. a schema for the
> queries/responses) but I believe that can be further refined in other works
> independent to this proposal.
>
> I would like to hear what the WG thinks, if this is a reasonable proposal
> which fits into the broader charter of GROW?
>
> Thanks,
> Rayhaan
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